US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 27 for "Belt conveyance device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,227, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Belt conveyance device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuyuki Narita (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt conveyance device includes an endless belt, first and second stretching rollers to stretch the belt, a steering roller tiltably supported and to stretch the belt, a steering mechanism to tilt the steering roller in a direction where a change of a position of the belt in a widthwise direction is cancelled, and an adjusting mechanism. The adjusting mechanism is capable of adjusting an inclination angle in a rotational axis direction of the se...